About 3 months back, I purchased an NBA Jam arcade cabinet that was converted from Gauntlet. I am wanting to bring it back to it's glory. Unfortunately, NBA Jam has extra buttons, 1 extra for each player and 4 up top for player selection. The individual that converted the cabinet did a crazy hack job on the CPO.
They drilled quite a few extra holes for the game, and with what I can only gather as uncertainty as to the location of the holes, drilled too many. They then proceeded to weld metal panels over the holes they were not interested in keeping. So I am now left with some extra holes, a warped metal panel due to abuse and an unexperienced welder being too rough and warping a lot of points on the metal with heat.
This has all led me to visiting about a dozen local metal fabricators to have a new one made. The cost of having one made sounds relatively cheap according to the workers. The initial price is in having their engineers do all the measuring and plotting in the computer. They have assured me that this is only an initial cost and that afterwards, the file would be on their server to put into the laser cutter at any time.
I am posting this to see if anyone has any great alternatives to this since it seems difficult to find an original of ONLY the metal portion. I am looking to stick with it being made out of the same material. If no one has any other options, would anyone have interest in the same item and possibly want to have one shipped to them (you pay for yours and shipping) after finding out cost and everything?
Thanks for everyones input and I look forward to hearing all your suggestions.
I have attached a photo of the CPO in question, with artwork attached. What I am speaking of, is only the metal portion that the art adheres to on top of the wood.
They drilled quite a few extra holes for the game, and with what I can only gather as uncertainty as to the location of the holes, drilled too many. They then proceeded to weld metal panels over the holes they were not interested in keeping. So I am now left with some extra holes, a warped metal panel due to abuse and an unexperienced welder being too rough and warping a lot of points on the metal with heat.
This has all led me to visiting about a dozen local metal fabricators to have a new one made. The cost of having one made sounds relatively cheap according to the workers. The initial price is in having their engineers do all the measuring and plotting in the computer. They have assured me that this is only an initial cost and that afterwards, the file would be on their server to put into the laser cutter at any time.
I am posting this to see if anyone has any great alternatives to this since it seems difficult to find an original of ONLY the metal portion. I am looking to stick with it being made out of the same material. If no one has any other options, would anyone have interest in the same item and possibly want to have one shipped to them (you pay for yours and shipping) after finding out cost and everything?
Thanks for everyones input and I look forward to hearing all your suggestions.
I have attached a photo of the CPO in question, with artwork attached. What I am speaking of, is only the metal portion that the art adheres to on top of the wood.
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